vagueness

March 8, 2017 (Fault Lines) – The United States Supreme Court ruled on a major federal sentencing guidelines case this week. For the last decade plus, since the Supreme Court’s 2005 decision in Booker, the guidelines...

February 28, 2017 (Fault Lines) –  Good legislative drafting is hard to do. And bad legislative drafting is easy to do. In the criminal sphere, bad drafting leads to open-ended statutes with broad terms defining an...